iBook recycling (portable console?)

Hello all, I am the lucky owner of one of those infamous bad-graphics processor iBooks. I don't want to just sell it off, and all my fix it plans have had moderate success leaving me with a still useless iBook (I can boot it up now but if I move it it crashes ). So I want to do something with it that will be cool.

The best idea I could come up with (besides the tried and true, immobile server thought, which I don't want or need) was to turn it in to some sort of portable console, perhaps a PS2 or XBox. Think about the possibilities, a mobile console with it's own battery and LCD. Here's the issue, I don't know jack about this kind of stuff and so can't move past the concept phase.

My question, is this possible? Is there any console with hardware small enough to fit into the casing of 14" iBook? Could someone with the proper knowledge hardwire the LCD/Battery(and power supply)/Optical drive to that hardware?

I could use any thoughts, tips, suggestions, references, anything for what to do with this machine besides server or paperweight.

Thanks!!

 

I dont think this is possible. Might be able to mod a PSone or even PS2 to fit in the case but even that would be very hard because consels tend to be higher and the ibook is flat and thin.

Using the battery and powersupply is not going to fit unless you are very lucky and the consel uses the same number of volts and amps. Consels tent to have a build in power adapter. Would be easier to put the consels adapter in the ibook and use the normal power. The Optical drive might work but then you need a mod chip to play games. The LCD is also almost impossible.

 

Hmm well that's disappointing. So why wouldn't the LCD work?

 

It's actually quite doable, but you have to have a good knowledge base in electrical engineering. You could use the iBooks battery, but you'd more than likely have to make a board to alter the amperage and voltage. You could replace the optical drive with that from the console, which would also require some custom fabrication. The LCD screen would need special inputs for it to work correctly.

I'd say scrap the idea of using a PS2 or PS One, and go for a regular Nintendo. It'd be old, but it'd be cool as hell, and you know it. A lot of the engineering issues would go straight out the window as those things were built to handle just about any power thrown at them, and the cartridge loader would have to be external anyway. So that just leaves you with making the LCD work.